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Mishael received The 2000
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Home Page 2 Burning Questions begins with the story of Mishael Porembski, classically American in her foreign origins. You're invited to follow her on an intimate voyage of discovery about her family's past, behind a veil of fifty years. From the backyard barbecues in Suburban America of the 70's to an age of terror and despotism when Hitler's armies ruled Europe and innocents died in the millions. In Poland, The Nazis crushed a fiercely proud nation, as Germany prepared Polish soil to be the site of the greatest crime ever committed: the Holocaust. As WWII drew to a close, the Nazis retreated from Warsaw, destroying the city as they went. That's when the Porembskis like many other Poles, were swept up in the Third Reich's last spasms of cruelty. In Burning Questions Mishael's great aunt Stefania Porębska tells stories from the Ravensbrück women's death camp, and her cousin Maria Jaszczuk recalls three years of Auschwitz torture. Mishael's father, grandmother and aunt were interned in Bergen Belsen before being forced into slave labor on German farms. Two weeks before they were shipped out of Poland her grandfather Henryk Porębski was arrested and not heard from since then. Through personal accounts both funny and grim, archival footage and experts, Burning Questions revisits Poland's trials, and explores the war's bitter harvest: the lingering distrust and resentment between Jews and Polish Christians. From start to finish, Burning Questions remains unflinchingly honest and clear. This 56 minute story, seen on many NBC and PBS stations, is told through the gripping tale of the Porembski family, who survived the horrors of the Nazi occupation and fled West. Now, half a century later, their American daughter retraces their footsteps and opens a window on a part of the past that has never been truly laid to rest. |
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